A day alone with nowhere to go!

For the last year and a half I have always worked on Tuesday mornings. Kaelyn spends that day with Aarons mom and with the exception that one of us is on vacation, this routine never changes. So even though my new title is "housewife" (barf!) No offense to housewives out there AT ALL... im sure in time I will like it, I just don't like the term- housewife! Because lets face it, we are way more than that! And the word HOUSE-WIFE...I'm not married to my house, I am married to my husband. Well, I guess I am sort of married to the house but only for 30 years which is longer than some peoples marriages I guess. Anyway, back to my original point here....My mother in law still wanted to spend time with Kaelyn so we decided to keep the same Tuesday schedule. This gave me...wait for it...yes I am going to say it........ A DAY ALONE! What the heck was I going to do!??!?! The possibilities are endless right?! A massage, shopping, lunch with a friend, or a pedicure. I could even spend the day parked on the side of the road doing nothing and that's ok! I was going to make the most of this day...or so I thought.

Originally I was going to drive up and have lunch with Aaron. It was Valentine's day so why not? Even though we don't care much about that day a lunch date would still be nice. And besides, he got me that sweet necklace so the least I could do was use his hard earned $ and buy him a sandwich or something right! :) Well, my husband is THE BEST and kindly declined my offer and suggested that I spend the day alone doing whatever I wanted since I rarely get to do that and once nugget #2 comes I probably never will. Now some ladies out there might have been hurt that their man turned down a lunch date with their lady..but nope...not me!! I know he only said no because he loves me and knows that I need some me time every so often. So here is what I ended up doing with my "free day 2012."

I started out at Target, every moms Mecca. I promised myself I wouldn't even enter the kids dept. Tell me why that is where I spent the most time! After I was able to pull myself away from the clearance kids racks, I left with a hefty purchase of Aveeno face wash and a clearance shirt for myself. $12.00 total. Now anyone that shops at Target often enough knows it's next to impossible to leave there only spending $12.00. Target was a bust.

Next stop, the mall. I have some gift cards that I needed to spend.... I wandered around the mall clueless about what to buy or where to look. (probably because I can't stand being at the mall) I managed to get a Jamba Juice hoping that would spark something in me to get the shopping bug going...NOTHING! All I could think about was that I would rather of had a salted pretzel instead of the Jamba Juice. I looked at kid shit (sorry for the bad word) the entire time I was there and left empty handed. I decided to head to a place where I knew I could leave with a bag of goodies. Value Village! Well, that was a bust as well...they weren't having any specials (50% off of a certain colored tag) and even though thrift store things aren't too spendy I usually don't buy anything unless the tag is the color of the 50% off. Yes, go ahead and say it, im cheap! Being frugal is the name of the game when you don't have a job.

I ventured home and ended up spending the last few hours of my alone time blasting music and dancing while cleaning my house... I made an attempt to organize some baby things...(major fail) and got caught up on some of my shows on the DVR. Aaron was coming home somewhat early and was going to pick up some MSM Mike's deluxe sammies for dinner, which was pretty much the highlight of the day. :)

So the whole point of this post....Moms, why is it that we crave some alone time and when we do get it we don't know what to do with ourselves?! Or is it just me? Maybe after #2 arrives I will know what to do on the off chance that I get some me time. All of this got me thinking and im pretty sure the last time I did anything ALONE and just for me was on my birthday and that is only because Aaron got me a day at the spa and called ahead and made the appt for me, as well as got a babysitter lined up...Refer back to when I said he is seriously the greatest guy! But at the end of the day I am glad that I would rather spend the day chasing around my kid, and I am forever grateful that I am able to be home with her and watch her grow!

What do you do with your free time?